The bee hive was after me

On the subject of language, I have a strange phenomenon to report.

After finishing college I went to study Hebrew on a Kibbutz.  The Kibbutz was Hagoshrim, a farm near the Syrian-Lebanon border.

I had been there a few weeks and certainly didn't know any Hebrew yet. (I never got very good at it.)  I was working in the fields, moving aluminum watering pipes, when some thing I did set a swarm of bees or hornets after me.  I ran as fast as I could, on pure adrenaline, assuming I could out run them...but not really thinking or assuming anything.

After a few minutes I passed a woman on a tractor who yelled at me to "stop and lie down."  I did and the swarm went on its merry way.  I got up and walked over to thank the woman. She was an Israeli and didn't speak a word of English.